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FEED BAG. I. N0. Z85,1 17. Patented Sept. 18,1883

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ATTORNE ATENT OFFICE.

HENRY DRESOHER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FEED- BAG.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 285,117, dated September 18, 1883.

Application, filed February 3, 1883. (No model.)

and the invention consists of a feed-bag the body of which is connected at its wired lower edge to the folded upper edge of the cupshaped metallic bottom and tightly secured thereto, the joint between the body and bottom being covered by a downwardly-extending exterior leather band. In the accompanying drawings, Figure represents a side view of my improved feedbag; and Fig. 2, a detail vertical central section of the same, drawn on a larger scale.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents a feed-bag, of canvas or other suitable material, and B the cup-shaped bottom of the same. The latter is drawn from one con tinuous piece, and the upper edge of the same preferably turned over toward the outside, so as to provide an annular space between the walls of the bottom 13 and the turned-down portion or rim 1). Into the annular space the lower wired edge of the reversed feed-bag A is inserted, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, and then the turned-down portion b tightly pressed or clamped by suitable machinery against the side wall of the bottom 13, so that the wired edge of the feed-bag is rigidly retained thereby. The feed-bag A is then drawn over the folded edge of the bottom B, so as to assume its proper position. A leath er ban (1, O, of suitable height, is stitched or otherwise secured to the feed-bag in such a manner that-it extends downward and covers the joint or connection between the feed-bag and its bottom. In this manner a very neat, strong, and durable construction of feed-bag is obtained, in whichriveting and other hand-work is entirely done away with,

with the exception of a single rivet, a, at that point where the seams of the body A and of the exterior band, C, overlap each other.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. As an improvementin feed-bags, the combination of the body of the bag A with a cupshaped metallic bottom, B, the upper edge of which is turned over and clamped to the wired lower edge of the body of the feed-bag, sub stantially as set forth.

2. As an improvement in feed-bags, the combination of the body of the bag A, having a lower wired edge, with a cup-shaped bottom, B, having a turned-over edge and an exterior re-enforcing bottom band, C, secured to the body, extending over and covering the joint between the bag and bottom, substantially as set forth. p

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY nnnsonnn. NVitn esses PAUL GoEPEL, CARL KARI. 

